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Staff and Alumna Nominated for IBMA Awards

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Staff and Alumna Nominated for IBMA Awards

Director of Curb College Academic Advising Tina Dishman, with her band Sister Sadie, received two nominations for the International Bluegrass Music Association 2019 Awards: Vocal Group of the Year and Album of the Year for “Sister Sadie – II.”

Alumna Kristen Scott Benson is also nominated for Banjo Player of the Year.

The nominees were announced Wednesday, as voted by the association’s professional members and committee members. The awards will be given out Thursday, Sept. 26, during IBMA’s World of Bluegrass conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Sister Sadie has the honor of performing at the ceremony, as well. View a list of nominees here.

Tickets for the 30th annual awards show are available to the public here and the show will be broadcast live on Facebook and on Sirius XM’s Bluegrass Junction channel starting at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Sister Sadie will be making its third appearance at the Grand Ole Opry on August 16.

Alumnus Achenjang Releases Book on Meditation

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Alumnus Achenjang Releases Book on Meditation

Roland Achenjang, a 2015 alumnus of Belmont’s MBA in Healthcare Management, will release his first book, “Who and Why You Are: All You Need to Remember,” on August 21 through Amazon. The e-book is currently available for pre-order.

Roland began meditating to cope with the stress of being both a business school student and the sole overnight clinical pharmacist at a large hospital in Nashville. As a result, his life transformed from a fear-based experience to one filled with creative expressions.

In “Who and Why You Are: All You Need to Remember,” Achenjang discusses his passion for helping others remember, experience and express what he says is the ultimate benefit to effective meditating – bliss.

Cover of "Who and Why You Are"

[The book] “reveals timeless, universal truths you need to remember to appreciate why you act the way you do and why you perceive your life experiences the way you do,” said Achenjang. “By recognizing and understanding these universal truths, you can break free from the endless, self-imposed, creative limitations impeding you from living a purposeful life, expressing joy and experiencing bliss while here on Earth.”

Born and raised in Cameroon before relocating with his family to the United States in 2000, Achenjang has always been facscinated with finding, or remembering, meanings and purposes to life on Earth.

Find out more on www.rolandachenjang.com.

Best-Selling Author Malcolm Gladwell to Speak on New Book ‘Talking to Strangers’ at Belmont Oct. 22

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Best-Selling Author Malcolm Gladwell to Speak on New Book ‘Talking to Strangers’ at Belmont Oct. 22

Fresh on the heels of a new book release,  “Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know,” best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell will bring his unique perspective and thought-provoking insights to Belmont University this fall.

Named one of the 100 most influential people by Time magazine and one of Foreign Policy’s top 100 Global Thinkers, Gladwell is a staff writer at The New Yorker and hosts the podcasts Revisionist History and Broken Record. His first new book in six years, “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know” (Little, Brown; September 10, 2019) offers an incisive and powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go so terribly wrong. In this classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, he starts by asking a question: “What happens when we have to deal with the unfamiliar?”

Jill Robinson, director of external relations and Executive Learning Networks for Belmont’s Jack C. Massey College of Business, said, “We are excited to host Malcolm Gladwell for the second time on Belmont’s campus as part of our Executive Learning Network fall programming. The Fall Leadership Breakfast was created to bring the highest level national speakers to the greater Nashville community, and Malcolm Gladwell represents one of the most prolific and talented storytellers in the business. Executives are still talking about his presentation two years ago with his release of ‘David and Goliath,’ and now with this new release of ‘Talking to Strangers,’ we are grateful his team and Parnassus Books reached out to us and requested to present again as part of the Executive Learning Network series of learning events.” 

Gladwell’s appearance at Belmont is supported by partnerships with Parnassus Books and EO Nashville.

Niki Coffman, Parnassus events director, said, “Parnassus is ecstatic to once again partner with the Executive Learning Network to bring Malcolm Gladwell to Nashville. We are delighted to work closely with ELN to provide a fantastic opportunity to present this remarkable program to the community.”

Book cover

As Gladwell sets out to show us in his new book, strangers are not easy. He leads us on a provocative journey through history, psychology, and the most scandalous stories plucked from the news. He examines how spies could go undetected in the U.S. intelligence community for years and ponders why Neville Chamberlain thought he could trust Adolf Hitler. He asks: How can we tell whether a person is lying? In probing the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State, and the death of Sandra Bland, he throws into doubt our conception of these and other stories we thought we knew so well.

This program is a presentation from Belmont’s Jack C. Massey College of Business Executive Learning Network, a thriving network of more than 350 business executives with the purpose of bringing together senior leaders of Nashville’s best-run companies in a setting where they can learn from each other. EO Nashville is the program’s community sponsor.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Massey Performing Arts Center atBelmont University
6:45 a.m.: Registration and Coffee
7 a.m.: Doors Open
7:30 a.m.: Malcolm Gladwell Presentation
Parking: Curb Event Center Garage (Building No. 39 on the campus map)
Cost: $35, which includes presentation, new book and light breakfast hors d’oeurves prior to the event.

Tickets for the event will go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday, August 5 and can be purchased here.

Belmont Again Named a ‘Best College Value’ by Kiplinger Personal Finance

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Belmont Again Named a ‘Best College Value’ by Kiplinger Personal Finance

Belmont University was recently named to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s Best College Values for 2019 annual ranking. Introduced in 1998, the rankings combine public schools, private universities and private liberal arts colleges into a single, comprehensive list. The analysis is based on objective measurements of academic quality and affordability.

To arrive at its best value rankings, Kiplinger’s begins with data on nearly 1,200 public and private four-year schools and then narrows the list based on measures of academic quality. Then each school is ranked using cost and financial aid measures. 

Littlejohn Awarded Third Prize in International Visual Essay Competition

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Littlejohn Awarded Third Prize in International Visual Essay Competition

Dr. Ronnie Littlejohn, professor of philosophy and director of Asian studies, has been awarded Third Prize in the International Visual Essay Competition sponsored by the Center on Religion and Chinese Society for his essay, Entering the Dark Places of Wisdom.  

The prize-winning article and images focus on the Tiangu Cave on Mount Hemingshan (Crane Call Mountain) in Sichuan, China. The remote grotto is where Zhang Daoling, the founder of the Celestial Masters Daoist movement, had his experience of transformation and illumination. It is considered one of Daoism’s “Blessed Spots” (fudi 福地). The site represents one of six locales which are part of a documentary series Littlejohn is producing entitled, “Perfected Persons of Chinese History.”

At this location, his team consisted of Ms. Serena Zhang (Zhang Chunli 张春丽), research assistant; Ms. Yang Zhide 杨至德, director of Qingchengshan青城山and Hemingshan 鹤鸣山Daoist sites; Mr. Huang Chengchao 黄诚超, Daoshi道士 of Tiangu Dong, Hemingshan; and Mr. Simon Chen (Chen Qi 陈 奇), director, inbound research and foreign scholars, Sichuan International Service Co., LTD.  Littlejohn’s research and the documentary is partially funded by a grant from Belmont’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

Belmont Named a Top 10 Prettiest College Campus in the Country

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Belmont Named a Top 10 Prettiest College Campus in the Country

The website The Travel included Belmont in its list of the 10 Prettiest College Campuses in the Country. Belmont, along with Duke, was one of only two campuses listed in the South.

Of the colleges listed, The Travel said all of the campuses “feature amazing architecture and vivid views, which surely help inspire the students that attend, as well as those who just get the chance to glance at these campuses.”

Belmont was cited for three notable buildings. The Curb Event Center is an arena that is utilized for sporting events, concerts and events, such as the CMT Awards and the 2008 Presidential Debate. The Belmont Mansion was the first building on campus, and it was originally owned by Joseph and Adelicia Acklen, a couple who built it as their summer estate, complete with gardens and a zoo. And there is the Belmont Tower and Carillon, the first carillon of the state and one of the first 25 to be put up on this continent.

Al-Shamma Published in Arab Stages

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Al-Shamma Published in Arab Stages

Associate Professor of Theatre Dr. James Al-Shamma co-authored an article titled, “Iraq’s Ancient Past as Cultural Currency in Rasha Fadhil’s Ishtar in Baghdad,” published in the Spring 2019 issue of Arab Stages.

In the article, Al-Shamma and co-author Amir Al-Azraki examine the application in the play of the mythology of ancient Mesopotamia to the 2003 invasion and as commentary on the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.

Arab Stages is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal.

Avid Hosts Spotlight Session in Belmont’s Johnson Theater

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Avid Hosts Spotlight Session in Belmont’s Johnson Theater

Avid Connect Live Nashville kicked off Thursday with a Welcome & Spotlight Session on at Belmont’s Johnson Center. Noteworthy musicians and music producers shared their craft, the tools they use and the trends driving music creation. The event also showcased the value of Avid’s latest audio products and innovations. The get-together was hosted by Greg “Stryke” Chin, Avid’s audio product evangelist and a Miami-based recording artist, producer and DJ.

The event was part of a three-day celebration of the music community that uses Avid creative tools and solutions and occurred in conjunction with Summer National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) conference, which was held in Nashville this week.

Gaines Co-Authors Paper Presented at IEEE

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Gaines Co-Authors Paper Presented at IEEE

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Dr. Tisha Brown Gaines coauthored “Traffic Aware Wireless Visual Sensor Network Deployment for 3D Indoor Monitoring,” a paper presented by her colleague, Dr. Feng Wang, this summer at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in Shanghai, China.  The ICC is the top international conference of the IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization. Over 2,400 papers are submitted to the conference in a typical year, of which less than 40% are accepted.

Belmont Introduces Data Science, Business Systems and Analytics Majors for Fall 2019

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Belmont Introduces Data Science, Business Systems and Analytics Majors for Fall 2019

On the heels of Belmont’s recent launch of a new hospitality program, the University announced today the initiation of two additional new majors designed to meet the growing tech and business sectors both in Nashville and throughout the U.S. New programs in Business Systems and Analytics and Data Science will feed trending data-driven fields by preparing students for careers that blend a strong business acumen with information systems and data analytics. Both programs are currently accepting students for Fall 2019.

According to a May 2019 article on CNBC.com, the field of data science leads the rankings of the “Best Jobs of 2019” with positive forecasts related to job growth, work environments and position stress levels. Recent studies reported on by the Nashville Technology Council indicated robust regional potential as well with median salaries around $70,000 for business and information analysts. Salary estimators from such sites as Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and PayScale suggest median salaries in the mid-80s for entry level Data Scientists in the Nashville area. Moreover, the launch of these programs at Belmont comes as Middle Tennessee welcomes an array of new global businesses, including the impending arrivals of Amazon, AllianceBernstein and Oracle, among others.

Both majors represent collaborative efforts that have incorporated input from numerous industry partners representing major companies headquartered locally including Nissan North America, HCA, Cat Financial, Tractor Supply, Asurion and Meharry Medical College along with leading Data Scientists from Eventbrite, Digital Reasoning, Axial Healthcare, Perception Health, and GitLab among others. That input—combined with information gathered from Belmont alumni and a cross-section of business, science, mathematics and computer science faculty—led to the development of programs that prepare students for the growing demand for IT professionals and data analysts.

Belmont Provost Dr. Thomas Burns said, “The world is changing at an incredibly rapid pace, and Belmont is committed to anticipating market needs to assure our graduates stay in high demand. It’s our responsibility to provide the education students need to succeed in the present and future workforce. By collaborating with leading Nashville companies, we’re ensuring our curriculum is equipping students with the right skills while also forging partnerships that give Belmont graduates better access to internships and careers.”

These programs provide students with numerous entry points for internships and employment that span all industries and functional areas. Both programs prepare graduates to manage and transform data to explain trends, predict future performance and explain solutions to drive business strategy, which are skills coveted by employers. The differences in the two programs come primarily with the students’ desired coursework path to achieve the optimal result for their individual career goals.

The Data Science major, housed in Belmont’s College of Science and Mathematics, will engage students with industry and academic communities through guest lecturers, internships, data projects, industry office hours and a Data Scientist in Residence from the student’s first class through to a successful career and/or graduate school. The Data Science program prepares students for career paths including data analyst, data engineer, data scientist, and many others that are open to candidates with strong analytical, problem-solving, technical and communication abilities.

The Business Systems and Analytics major, which is housed in the Massey College of Business, allows students to choose from one of three tracks depending on their desired career path. The Business Systems track is designed for students who desire to serve as the “bridge” between business leaders and IT specialists while the Business Analytics track is designed for students who want to analyze data to solve business problems. A multi-disciplinary track is designed for students who want to pursue a career that combines data analytics and information systems with other business courses.

Click here for additional information on the Business Systems and Analytics program.

Click here for additional information on the Data Science program.

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